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Guide to the Abraham Lincoln Collection (Historical Collection) - Series IV-VI
 

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Accession Number: HC 28
Abraham Lincoln Collection
17 linear feet
26 Boxes (17 manuscript boxes, 9 oversize boxes)

Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview
Series Description
Series I - Life of Lincoln
Series II - Memorials and Tributes
Series III - Pamphlets and Speeches
Series IV - Lincoln Industry
Series V - Memorabilia and Artifacts
Series VI - Newspapers and Clippings

Access and Use

Provenance: This is an artificial collection created from multiple donations given by a number of contributors. It exists as a companion to and an extension of the Shedd/Schwarzschild Abraham Lincoln Book Collection. The collection opened for research in the summer of 1993.

Access: There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.

Preferred Citation: The Abraham Lincoln Collection, Historical Collections, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.

Overview

The contents of the Abraham Lincoln Collection vary greatly and represent the historical and the ephemeral. Items contained herein elucidate his personal life and work before and during his presidency (early life, politics, and the Civil War). Materials include pamphlets of commemoration, information regarding various memorials and tributes erected and established in his honor, a section regarding the industry and culture built around the collecting of Lincoln memorabilia, as well as images, artifacts, and souvenir items. The collection includes documentation of Shedd's book collecting.

Box Lists, Series IV - VI

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Series IV Lincoln Industry Boxes 13-15

Contains items related to the industry grown around Lincoln collections.

Box 13

  1. Lincoln Bibliography
  2. Miscellaneous
  3. Collections Directories
  4. Berea College Lincoln Collection Booklist
  5. Brown University Lincoln Collection Booklist
  6. Industry Pamphlets
  7. Abraham Lincoln Bookshops
  8. Lincolniana
  9. Argosy Book Stores
  10. Midland Notes
  11. Book Lists

Box 14

  1. Shedd's Collection I
  2. Shedd's Collection II
  3. Mrs. Shedd's Lincoln Scrapbook

Box 15

Shedd's Card Catalog "Lincoln Items to Consider for Purchase"
"arranged alphabetically by author"

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Series V Memorabilia and Artifacts Boxes 16-24

Miscellaneous items and pictures relating to the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Box 16

  1. Lincoln Bow Tie, Two Anthony Collector's Cards (Brady Portraits of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, February 1863)
  2. Lincoln Bow Tie Documentation
  3. Lincoln Clothing and Ford's Theater Information
  4. Framed Copy of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball Invitation (gift of Alfred C. Howell)
  5. News Clippings
  6. Lincoln Material from the Chester A. Young Collection
  7. Lincoln Displa Item with Pennies
  8. Life of Lincoln in Pictures I
  9. Life of Lincoln in Pictures II
  10. Life of Lincoln in Pictures III
  11. Life of Lincoln in Pictures IV
  12. Life of Lincoln in Pictures V (see more in oversize)

Box 17 - FRAGILE GLASS ITEMS

Box 18 - FRAMED ITEMS - FRAGILE

Box 19 - Scrapbooks (4)

Box 20

  1. Life of Lincoln in Pictures (Oversize)
  2. Civil War Bayonet from near Grant House

Box 21 - Lincoln Portraits

Box 22 - Artifacts I

Box 23 - Artifacts II

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Series VI Newspapers and Clippings Boxes 24-26

Box 24 - Oversize Newspapers and Clippings

  1. 24 February 1929 - Cleveland Plain Dealer "The Duel My Husband Fought with Lincoln"
  2. 11 February 1968 - Courier-Journal Times & Magazine, "Abraham Lincoln: Quiet Candidate"
  3. Several more folders containing various publications and clippings, not inventoried


Box 25 - Oversize Newspapers
  1. 18 April 1865 – The Union (Brooklyn) (1 of 3 newspapers donated by Mr. A. C. Howell in 1943)
  2. 19 April 1865 – New York Tribune (2 of 3 newspapers donated by Mr. A. C. Howell in 1943)
  3. 26 April 1865 – New York Times (3 of 3 newspapers donated by Mr. A. C. Howell in 1943)
  4. 5 April 1865 – Fragments
  5. 15 April 1865 – New York Herald (1 of 4 copies, different editions)
  6. 15 April 1865 – New York Herald (2 of 4 copies, different editions)
  7. 15 April 1865 – New York Herald (3 of 4 copies, different editions)
  8. 15 April 1865 – New York Herald (4 of 4 copies, different editions)
  9. 15 April 1865 – The World
  10. 16 April 1865 - New York Herald
  11. 18 April 1865 - New York Times
  12. 19 April 1865 - The Sun (Baltimore)
  13. 24 April 1865 - Richmond Whig
  14. 24 April 1865 - Baltimore Clipper
  15. 6 May 1865 - Harper's Weekly (copy 1)
  16. 6 May 1865 - Harper's Weekly (copy 2)
  17. 6 May 1865 - Harper's Weekly (copy 2, continued)
  18. 6 May 1865 - Harper's Weekly (copy 2, continued)
  19. 8 May 1865 - New York Times
  20. 9 May 1865 - New York Times
  21. 11 May 1865 - New York Times
  22. 13 May 1865 - New York Times
  23. 8 February 1927 - New York Times
  24. 12 February 1927 - Boston Herald
  25. 12 February 1927 - Chicago Daily News, John M. Smyth Company Tribute


Box 26 - Newspaper Clippings

Folder 1: n.d.
  1. "An Unusual Lincoln Likeness."
  2. "Campaign Button of Lincoln plays a part in Anniversary."
  3. "French Honor to Lincoln."
  4. "Government's Lincoln Relics preserved by one man's work."
  5. "He Feared he couldn't give her a buggy ride."
  6. "How Lincoln came to make his classic Gettysburg address."
  7. "Knowing Lincoln Better."
  8. "Large Exhibit of Lincolniana on view at the Jones Library."
  9. "The Life of Abraham Lincoln."
  10. "Lincoln and Liquor."
  11. "Lincoln and the Bulletin."
  12. "Lincoln barred 'Hon.' As prefix."
  13. "Lincoln Clearly defined issues in his speech on 'Sectionalism'."
  14. "Lincoln check found, autograph valuable."
  15. "Lincoln held salary drafts 15 months under inkstand to help the government."
  16. "Lincoln statue plan recalls Norfolk sires."
  17. "People you ought to know-No. 95. Dr. William E. Barton."
  18. "Woman Knew Wilkes Booth."


Folder 2: 1909-1920
  1. 1909, Feb 12. New York Times. Facsimile of April 16, 1865 issue.
  2. 1909, Feb 7. New York Daily Tribune. "Some of the presidential Inaugurations."
  3. 1909, Feb 7. New York Herald. "John H. Surratt's Story of his relations with Booth and his flight to Canada."
  4. 1909, Feb 4. New York Times
  5. 1909, Jan. New York Herald
  6. 1911, Feb 9. La Fiaccola [non-english]
  7. 1912, Feb 11. New York Times
  8. 1913, Apr 27. The Sun. "Capt. S.H. Beckwith, Grant's Shadow, describes thrilling incidents of General's operations during Civil War."
  9. 1917, Feb 11. New York Times Magazine. "An Unpublished Lincoln Portrait"
  10. 1917, Feb 11. New York Times Magazine. "Lincoln Greater. Each passing year."
  11. 1917, Oct 28. New York Times Magazine. "Barnard's Lincoln as a noted painter sees it."
  12. [1917] "Lincoln as our national symbol instead of ridiculous Uncle Sam."
  13. 1919, Aug 17. Sunday Record's Stories Fiction Section. "The Soul of Ann Rutledge"
  14. 1919, Oct 29. "British Poet will supervise production of his play 'Abraham Lincoln'."
  15. 1919, Nov 9. N.Y. Nation
  16. 1920, Oct. "The man who knew better than Noah"


Folder 3: 1921-1924
  1. 1921, Feb 6. New York Tribune. "Memorial Raised to Ann Rutledge"
  2. 1921, Feb 12. Boston Evening Post.
  3. 1921, Feb 12 . The Evening World. "A Man for the Ages."
  4. 1921, Mar 13. La Domenica Illustrata. "Lincoln's Inauguration." [Non-English]
  5. 1922, Nov 19. New York Times. "New Data for Lincoln's Life."
  6. 1922, Dec 15. "Letters of Mrs. Lincoln Reveal Family's Poverty."
  7. 1922, Dec 30. Boston Evening Transcript. "Lincoln through the vista of Time."
  8. 1923, Feb 11. New York Tribune. "Lincoln's place in two vivid memories."
  9. 1923, Feb 12. The Christian Science Monitor. "Lincoln in the eyes of the little girl across the street."
  10. 1923, Mar 28. "Lincoln's best biographer."
  11. 1923, Sep 9. Public Ledger- Philadelphia. "Berks historians receive flag at Lincoln ancestral homestead."
  12. 1923, Sep 15. Boston Evening Transcript. "The President of the Confederacy."
  13. 1924, Feb 9. Boston Evening Transcript. "Lincoln's Birthday."
  14. 1924, Feb 10. New York Times. "Abraham Lincoln."
  15. 1924, Feb 10. New York Times. "Abraham Lincoln."
  16. 1924, Feb 11. New York Times. "Who knows who voted for Lincoln?"
  17. 1924, Mar 25. Boston Post. "When Rumor Became Tragedy."
  18. 1924, Mar 25. Boston Post. "Hard Tack and History."
  19. 1924, Apr 7. Boston Post. "Let the thing be pressed."
  20. 1924, Sep 7. New York Times. "Lincoln and undying oratory."
  21. 1924, Dec 3. Boston Herald. "Everlasting Lincoln."


Folder 4: 1925
  1. 1925, Feb 24. S. F. Chronicle. "Wilkes-Booth Came to her 20 years after he shot Lincoln, niece insists."
  2. 1925, Mar 4. New York Evening Post. "The 28 presidents of the united states that preceded Calvin Coolidge."
  3. 1925, Aug 5. Boston Herald. ". Believes Bixby Letter is here."
  4. 1925, Aug 29. Boston Herald. "New Lincoln Room will be opened by Dr. Barton Today."
  5. 1925, Aug 30. Boston Herald. "Lincoln lovers view treasure."
  6. 1925, Aug 30. Boston Herald. "Secretary to Lincoln dies."
  7. 1925, Aug 30. New York Times. "Open New Lincoln Room."
  8. 1925, [Aug 2.] The Herald. "Lincoln Letter not in Bodleian."
  9. 1925, [Aug 3.] The Herald. "Lincoln Letter proved elusive."
  10. 1925. New York Times. "Retouching Lincoln's portrait."


Folder 5: 1926
  1. 1926, Jan 9. Boston Herald. "How it went at Gettysburg."
  2. 1926, Jan 10. New York Times. "Lincoln Tragedy Messenger dies."
  3. 1926, Jan 30. The Saturday Review of Literature. "Abraham Lincoln."
  4. 1926, Feb 7. New York Times. "Lincoln as a war telegrapher saw him."
  5. 1926, Feb 7. New York Times. "Lincoln Measured by World Yardstick."
  6. 1926, Feb 12. The Evening World.
  7. 1926, Feb 12. New York Evening Graphic. "City Joins with Nation to Fete Lincoln's Birth."
  8. 1926, Feb 12. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. "Wax statuary depicts Lincoln freeing slaves."
  9. 1926, Feb 12. Christian Science Monitor. "Lincoln's Ancestry had leading part in Massachusetts history."
  10. 1926, Feb 14. New York Times Book Review. "When Lincoln rode the circuit."
  11. 1926, Feb 14. New York Times. "Find Actor's story of Lincoln's Death."
  12. 1926, Mar 6. "Lincoln asked secret prayer in dark hours."
  13. 1926, Mar 7. New York Times. "The Constitution molded by Great Minds."
  14. 1926, May 21. Manchester Guardian Weekly. "A new book on Lincoln."
  15. 1926, May 31. Boston Herald. "The New Lincoln Letters."
  16. 1926, June 1. Boston Herald. "Played Chess with Lincoln and Beat him, Boast of Ohio Lawyer."
  17. 1926, June 5. The New Statesman. "Abraham Lincoln."
  18. 1926, June 18. Boston Herald. "A Lincoln Connection breaks."
  19. 1926, June 22. Boston Herald. "How Lincoln prepared altar for communion."
  20. 1926, June 25. Boston Herald. "Lincoln Never Said it."
  21. 1926, July 2. Manchester Guardian Weekly. "An Abraham Lincoln Story."
  22. 1926, July 19. Boston Herald. "The other Abraham Lincoln."
  23. 1926, July 27. Boston Herald. "10,000 Lincoln Letters available in 21 years through son's death."
  24. 1926, Aug 27. Boston Herald. "The Healy portrait of Lincoln."
  25. 1926, Sept 9. Daily Times-Star. "Cincinnatians Trail historic "Lincoln Trek" In quest of lore."
  26. 1926, Sept 12. New York Times. "Another Lincoln Mystery is cleared up."
  27. 1926, Oct 3. New York Times. "An Old Lincoln Myth dispelled."


Folder 6: 1927-1929
  1. [1927] Letter Photo.
  2. 1927, Jan. "Lincoln's parentage and childhood."
  3. 1927, Jan 14. "Not a new Lincoln story."
  4. 1927, Jan 14. Boston Herald. "Lincoln Autograph on portrait under frame."
  5. 1927, Feb 3. New York Times. "Lincoln Autograph bought for $4700."
  6. 1927, Feb 6. Boston Sunday Globe. "Boss King of Siam offered Lincoln a big idea - the president's reply."
  7. 1927, Feb 12. Christian Science Monitor. "Lincoln's Sound culture evident in early Unpublished letter."
  8. 1927, Feb 12. Christian Science Monitor. "Greatness of Lincoln Praised by Tennessee Former Governor."
  9. 1927, Feb 12. New York Herald Tribune. "Lincoln grew beard on plea of little girl."
  10. 1927, Feb 12. Rocky Mountain News. "Lincoln Relics."
  11. 1927, May 1. The Sunday Citizen. "Beveridge's Death a loss south to feel."
  12. 1927, May 3. Courier-Journal Louisville. "Booth Yarn Revisited."
  13. 1927, May 8. Sunday Citizen. "Beveridge is given a 'large' Lincoln find."
  14. 1927, May 15. Sunday Citizen. "Beveridge is given review of his Lincoln."
  15. 1927, May 22. Sunday Citizen. "Beveridge is given a deal of source data."
  16. 1927, May 29. Sunday Citizen. "Final Letter of Beveridge is published."
  17. 1928, Oct 7. New York Times. "Knox again hears Lincoln Debate."
  18. 1928, Oct 7. New York Times. "Where Douglas and Lincoln Debated."
  19. 1928, Sept 23. New York Times. "Beveridge's life of Lincoln."
  20. 1928, Oct 21. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Knox College celebrates seventieth Anniversary of Lincoln-Douglas Debate."
  21. [1928] "Disputing the genuineness of Alleged Lincoln letters."
  22. 1929, Dec 8. "Martin Van Buren, the "Red Fox" of the Jackson Era."
  23. 1929, May 26. New York Times. "Lincoln's Posthumous Career as America's Folkgod."


Folder 7: 1930-1969
  1. 1930, Feb 9. New York Times. "Restoring Lincoln's Study. "
  2. 1930, Feb 9. Sunday World Magazine. "Lincoln and the Contrabands."
  3. 1930, Feb 9. New York Times. "A Grotesque view of Lincoln in Emil Ludwig's Biography."
  4. 1930, Feb 9. New York Herald Tribune. "Lincoln made human."
  5. 1930, Feb 9. New York Times Magazine. "A New Lincoln: A world Figure."
  6. 1930, Mar 23. New York Herald Tribune. "Every Shred of Evidence."
  7. 1931, March 8. New York Times. "The History of class violence in the united states."
  8. 1931, March 8. New York Times. "Lincoln viewed as a politician."
  9. 1932, Feb 7. New York Herald Tribune. "Abraham Lincoln."
  10. 1932, Feb 12. New York Sun. "Lincoln V. Douglas."
  11. 1932, March 6. New York Times. "Justice Done to Mary Todd, the wife of Lincoln."
  12. 1932, Dec 4. New York Times. "Mary Todd's Part in the making of Abraham Lincoln."
  13. 1933, Feb 12. New York Times. "Lincoln in the White House."
  14. 1933, March 17. The Shelby Sentinel. "Born to blush unseen."
  15. 1934, Feb 12. New York Herald Tribune. "A century and a quarter."
  16. 1934, June 14. Springfield Sun. "Lincoln Homestead Memorial Dedicated."
  17. 1939, June 5. Knoxville News. "LMU Enjoys its biggest day as Hoover and portrayer of School's namesake visit."
  18. [1940] The Polygon. "Capt. Newcome, Lincoln's Boy Spy, recounts thrilling life story."
  19. 1943, Feb 6. Christian Science Monitor. "Lincoln's Frontier Lives again."
  20. 1943, Feb 9. Chicago Sun. "Lincoln's formative years recalled on Indiana Hilltop."
  21. 1947, Dec 14. New York Times. " 'Living with Lincoln'- A new impression."
  22. 1948, Feb. Advance. "Lincoln's Religion."
  23. [1960] "Living with Lincoln."
  24. 1960, Oct 6. Louisville Courier Journal. "Mr. President- 16."
  25. 1967, April 16. Chicago Tribune.
  26. 1969, April 6. Courier Journal and Times. "Their Name is Mudd and their Number Legendary."
  27. 1969, April 15. Courier Journal. "Letter relates shock at scene of Lincoln's assassination."

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